Gain in the East 9 



the war period. These census figures are now 

 old and great changes have taken place in the 

 seven or eight years since the more recent 

 ones were made. Some of these changes seem 

 to be indicated in the most recent figures. A 

 current discussion of "changes m farm val- 

 ues " published by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and covering the years 

 1900 to 1905, makes a very different showing 

 from those that we have been in the habit of 

 quoting. These figures of the Department of 

 Agriculture are estimates and computations, 

 and I do not know whether they or the cen- 

 sus figures more accurately represent the 

 exact status of agricultural conditions. Even 

 for the census year 1900, the diflferences in 

 values as reported by the census and as com- 

 puted by the Department of Agriculture 

 amounted for New York state to nearly 

 ninety-nine millions of dollars for the value of 

 land and improvements, including buildings. 

 The computations of the Department as be- 

 tween the years 1900 and 1905 show a gain in 

 similar values for the state of New York of 



